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Main Library Book Drive On Saturday
REMINDER: The Friends of the RPL’s Fall DRIVE-THRU BOOK DRIVE is OCTOBER 6 — from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm at the rear loading dock of Main Library.
Bring your books to us, and you won’t have to get out of the car! (Seriously.) See the attached flyer for complete information.
Main Library Features James River Park Photos
From the Friends of James River Park FaceBook page:
The downtown Richmond Public Library Main branch, 2nd Floor Gallery, will exhibit a
collection of photographs of “Wild Things on the James” from September 7th,
First Friday, to October 2nd. Check it out when you check out a book!
Also on Saturday, the 8th, at the Main branch:
11:30am
Father and Son Basketball Craft
Come and make a inside basketball game to hook on the door. Ball included. Please call for reservations – 646-4768. Limited spaces. Great for ages 2-10.
Negro Leagues Baseball Players To Appear At Main Public Library
From the Richmond Public Library Blog:
Friday, August 10th at 4:30 p.m., former baseball players from the Negro Leagues will be at the Main Library to talk about their experience in the league and Civil Rights struggle in the 1950s and 1960s. Surviving members who will participate in an interview questionnaire are Henry Mason, Joe Durham, Mamie Johnson-Goodman, and Pedro Sierra. This program is “FREE” and is open to the public.
Susan Greenbaum at Richmond Public Library Park on Thursday
2012 Girls of Summer Tonight At The Public Library
The Main Street branch of the Richmond Public Library holds Girls of Summer 2012 at 7pm. A literary girls night out at the library – a special conversation with friends Gigi Amateau, Meg Medina, and Wendy Shang, author of “The Great Wall of Lucy Wu.” It makes one perfect evening – library park, books, authors, friends and ice cream!
From the Richmond Public Library event page:
Local Richmond children’s authors Meg Medina and Gigi Amateau present their annual annotated reading list of 18 handpicked titles that celebrate strong girls in a fun-filled night for book-loving girls of every age.
This year’s live launch event at the Main Library will feature:
• Outdoor refreshments in the library park
• An intimate conversation with award-winning, middle grade Wendy Shang, author of The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
• Readers’ theater
• and book giveaways
• Plus, one lucky winner will win an entire collection of the 2012 Girls of Summer reading list.Tuesday, June 19, 2012
7 – 9 pm
Richmond Public Main Library
Library Park area (bring a lawn chair)The full list of reviews and author interviews will be available online at
www.girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com beginning June 20, 2012.
Saturday’s Treasures And Then Some
From neighbor:
The estate sale at 409 1/2 S. Laurel will be back on this Saturday from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. Please come out and check out some treasures!
A lot of things happening around downtown this Saturday:
President Obama (and Coach Smart) is speaking at VCU, so beware of traffic craziness in that direction. (Maybe someone else will speak up…)
Although a bit out of the neighborhood, bicycle riders will converge at Dove Street and Richmond Henrico Turnpike at 10 am for the long awaited ribbon cutting of the Cannon Creek Greenway. It will be interesting to see how this and other greenway connections contribute to the Cap2Cap Trail (click here for their ride next weekend) and the East Coast Greenway. According to the latest riverfront planning, the East Coast Greenway will include the pedestrian bridge under Belle Island.
As mentioned here earlier, Oregon Hill’s closest branch of the Richmond Public Library, the Main branch, will be hosting the Friends of the Richmond Public Library Book Sale. Across 2nd Street from the Main library, the Richmond Hostel will be hosting a yard sale from 9 am to noon.
Also, Asian Festival at the Richmond Convention Center and Que Pasa Festival on the Canal Walk.
And then, closer to home, Medea Benjamin will be appearing at the William Byrd Community House from 7 pm to 9 pm at a Defenders meeting. Medea Benjamin is promoting her new book called Drone Warfare.
Main Library Book Sale This Weekend
Gardening For Teens and Tweens At Main Library On Monday
From Richmond Public Main Library calendar:
Gardening@ your Library
Monday, April 16th
3-5 PM
Hey tweens and teens, do you have a green thumb? Well, let’s start a gardening community at the Main Library. We will also have experts to give us a kick start to making our garden grow. Call 646-7223 for more details.
James River Film Festival at Main Library on Friday
From announcement:
Join us at the Main Library on Friday, April 13 from Noon to 3, for the 19th James River Film Festival
Free and open to the public!
Futuropolis (Phil Trumbo and Steve Segal, 1984, 40 min.) with star Tom (Cosmo) Campagnoli! This is the granddaddy of Richmond independent film, the third time we’ve screened Futuroplis since the festival began in 1994. Shot over nine years on sets constructed in the basement of the Broad Street Station (now the Science Museum of Virginia), using an animation process known as pixilation, Futuropolis has the feel of a 1930’s comic strip and the warm synthesis of atomic age nostalgia. With Futuroplis actor Tom (Cosmo) Campagnoli on hand for a Q&A
19th JRFF: Mark of the Damned
Mark of the Damned (Eric Miller, 2007, 90 min.) with director Eric Miller! Made by Richmonders over an 8-year span at a cost of $10,000, Mark of the Damned is a sci-fi/horror hybrid, full of ambience and shot in the stark chiaroscuro of the silent cinema years. A self-proclaimed “journey beyond truth into an amplified world,” Mark of the Damned’s cursed legacy includes a screening in Sicily where the power in the theatre inexplicably failed. Director Eric Miller will be on hand for a Q&A after the screening.